HYPERALLERGIC: The History of Breast Milk in Art

Aimee Koran explores the unpredictability and generative aspects of the lactating body, especially in her ongoing series Milkscapes, elegant drifts of drying milk magnified in wall-hanging prints with opaline echoes of Hambleton’s otherworldly forms. In 2022, her prints of curdling spilled milk were made into eight flags, and hung outside Philadelphia’s Maternity Care Coalition’s Early Head Start Building, capturing transitory moments of maternity and appearing like the surfaces of another planet.

Approaching breast milk as a medium allows us to reconsider it as a subject matter too. Breastfeeding is often thought of as a process; rarely do we think about the product — milk — outside of child-rearing contexts. What are the origins of milk itself? Under what conditions is it produced? What value do we place on the labor of lactation and how taboo do we really think the final product is?

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